It's summer, which means it's time for long roadtrips with your family and friends. While that well-deserved vacay is something to look forward to, you also need to be aware that with the increasing temperature is the greater likelihood that motorists you're sharing the road with will lose their cool behind the wheel. Scorching heat and sluggish traffic flow is a surefire formula for impatient, pissed off drivers.

When it comes to road rage, nobody wins. At least one party always ends up looking like an inconsiderate jerk, and if worse comes to worst, the situation results in vehicular damage or even bodily harm.

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Now, before you judge the next viral hothead on social media, you better make sure you're not doing the same. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

If, for starters, you always make good use of spare change scattered around your interior or you're very colorful with your vocabulary, you're probably at the early stages of developing road rage. Check out the video from Top Gear to see how bad it can go so that you know how to avoid it.

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